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ITHACA, N.Y. – St. Lawrence scored four consecutive goals, including short-handed and power-play strikes early in the third period, to hand the men's hockey team a 4-2 loss Saturday night at Lynah Rink.
 
Senior forward Cole Bardreau and sophomore forward Matt Buckles scored power-play goals for Cornell (1-4-1, 1-3 ECAC Hockey), bookending the goals by St. Lawrence (7-4-1, 3-1). Patrick Doherty starred for the Saints with a goal and two assists.
 
The Big Red had plenty of opportunities to jump out to a multiple-goal lead in the first period, but it came up empty on three breakaways and surrendered a hard-luck goal to end the opening 20 minutes even at 1. Bardreau's goal was the result of pretty passing play after sustained pressure in the Saints' zone. Senior forward Joel Lowry started the play with good work along the boards before passing to sophomore Jake Weidner on the right side. Weidner then threaded a perfect pass across the low slot to Bardreau, who was undetected by the Saints' defense on the back door, and he converted from point-blank range.
 
St. Lawrence's Gunnar Hughes answered 2:30 later on a one-timer that was headed well wide of the net before banking off the hip of a Cornell defender in the slot. The second period featured far fewer scoring chances for both teams and appeared destined to be scoreless until a late marker by Nolan Gluchowski. The Big Red lost a faceoff in its own zone, with a winger sending the puck back to Gluchowski inside the blue line. The defender assigned to Gluchowski got his skates tangled with a Saints player in the circle and fell, allowing Gluchowski space to drift toward the middle and whistle a shot through traffic that splashed into the net without Cornell sophomore goaltender Mitch Gillam ever seeing it.
 
The Big Red drew one of its eight power plays early in the third period and was on the hunt for an equalizer when the Saints struck short-handed for the fourth time in 12 games this season. Hughes worked the puck loose along the wall past a pair of Big Red players attempting to keep the zone. Doherty got a step ahead through the neutral zone and sent a shot past Gillam's block.
 
Just after Cornell's power play expired, junior defenseman Reece Willcox ripped a shot from the high slot off the post to St. Lawrence goalie Kyle Hayton's right. The Saints were then awarded a power play a couple minutes later, leading to Woody Hudson's goal on a rebound in the slot off Doherty's sharp-angle shot to give the visitors a three-goal lead.
 
Buckles pulled the Big Red back to within two with 7:51 remaining. Sophomore forward Jeff Kubiak gained the zone and passed to junior forward Christian Hilbrich along the left side, who quickly found Buckles in the high slot. Hayton made the save, but the Florida Panthers draft pick blew by the defender trying to block his initial shot and potted his second goal of the young season.
 
The Big Red pulled its goalie for the game's final 80 seconds, but couldn't pull any closer. A major penalty and disqualification for spearing by Hughes then set off a tussle after the final buzzer, with 177 penalty minutes doled out for a total of 205 penalty minutes in the game. A total of five disqualifications, which come with an automatic suspension of at least one game, were issued — two to Hughes, and one each to St. Lawrence's Chris Martin, and Cornell's Buckles and sophomore defenseman Holden Anderson.
 
Cornell continues its home stand next weekend with a pair of Ivy League games against Yale on Friday and Brown on Saturday.